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To survey the historical origins, theoretical development, and contemporary relevance of the agrarian question within globalized capitalist agriculture.

January 1, 2010The Journal of Peasant Studies

Surveying the agrarian question (part 1): unearthing foundations, exploring diversity

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AAA. Haroon Akram‐LodhiTrent University CKCristóbal KayErasmus University Rotterdam

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Theoretical survey demonstrates the evolution of agrarian political economy across rural farming systems, highlighting its utility for analyzing global capitalist market pressures.

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To survey the historical origins, theoretical development, and contemporary relevance of the agrarian question within globalized capitalist agriculture.
Conducted a two-part historical and theoretical survey tracing the foundational lineage of the agrarian question from Marx, Engels, Kautsky, and Lenin through later political economists.
Categorized and critically analyzed seven modern variants of the agrarian question under neoliberal globalization.
Traced the conceptual evolution of rural production, reproductive dynamics, and capital accumulation mechanisms across classical political economy literature.
Demonstrated that the agrarian question serves as an adaptable analytic framework to explain how small-scale petty commodity food production is continually reshaped by global market imperatives.

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Akram‐Lodhi et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69de5ae2210a0977fce93e50 https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150903498838

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Theoretical survey demonstrates the evolution of agrarian political economy across rural farming systems, highlighting its utility for analyzing global capitalist market pressures.

Surveying the agrarian question (part 1): unearthing foundations, exploring diversity

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Surveying the agrarian question (part 1): unearthing foundations, exploring diversity

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